Michael Doheny

Michael Doheny (22 May 1805-1 April 1863) was a Young Irelander revolutionary during the mid-19th century.

Biography
Michael Doheny was born in Brookhill, County Tipperary, Ireland in 1805, and he became a lawyer in 1834. He became a writer for the Young Irelander paper The Nation during the 1840s, and he fled to New York following the failure of the 1848 Young Irelander Rebellion. Doheny co-founded the Fenian Brotherhood in America, and he was also instrumental in the founding of the 69th New York Infantry Regiment. He died in 1863.